The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-02-24

day.
Town Creek WIS on boom last Sab,
bath.
The farmers are moving out the guanc
with rush.
Mrs. S. p. Bruce has been quite sich
for the last few days.
DIR. Todd, of Barnwell, is a brother-in-
law Of Abraham Lincoln.
The time is at hand to begin to save
money by working in the garden.
The Richmond State says the culture
of tobacco is no longer profitable in Vir-
ginia.
Mr.. James NJ. Porter has been confin-
ed to his room several days with rheu-
ma9ism
Mr.. George Percival of Westminster,
Oooneo county, died suddenly last Fri
day night.
The credit System will be strained just
a little farther this year than it has ever
been before.
Mr.. John w. Harris, of Batesville, Va,
stopped off Mt Picl1cns last Sabbath, on
his way to Galveston, Texas.
Mr.. Thomas Dickson and Joe. Bow
den, of Anderson County, will leave i'll
short time for trip to California.
Joe Hamilton, colored, with his fam
lily Of eight, left Easlcy last Thursday
morning for Little Rock; Arkansas.
A man in Csrecnvillc county recently
lost court of the days, ard was found
blowing in his field on the Sabbath day.
Day after day VIC hear of men getting
their hands torn off in cotton gins. Mr..
Mason ought to rush up his safety cyl
indcr
Married, on the 8, of February 1887,
hy John 0. Davis Esq, Mr.. S. w. Tur
ner to Miss Lou Trip, all of Pickens
County.
The News and Courier publishes a
statement that Col. j. II. Rion, of Wins
boro, was q grandson of Louis XVI Of
France.
The new road from PiclIcns to Pump
kintown will soon be coml leted. Near
" n hundred hands were at work on it
last week.
Mr.. r. A. Child has been retained to
assist in the defense of r. ii. Jacobs,
who viii be tried for murder mt the next
Grecnvillo Court.
Did You make your return to the Au
ditor2 IF You did not he has done writ
ten your name in red ink with the so per
cent. penalty attached.
Mr.. John G. Cary. of Seneca, is nHak
ing extensive preparations for Foirg in
to the grape business. Who will lie neX2
Let the good work go on.
The entertainment by the littl folks
last Friday night at the Institute. was a
lnarkcd success. 1t was literally patron
izcd, and much appreciated.
Many Of the fnrmcrs o Town, Wolf,
aud Rirc's Creeks hnvc improved the
looks Of their hottnmR very much by Civ
ing thc creek hanks n clean shave.
The New Orleans Picayunc says: "In
cat fight thc und"r cat has the advan-
tagc." This follows rs matter of
course, for he has the best backing.
Eugene Hollingsworth says he found
an apricot bloom on one of his trees last
week. lie will no doubt be the first to
give the editor an apricot this spring.
Mr.. j. B. Ammons, of Camden, has
invented cotton chopper. 1t weighs
$50 pounds costs, $1,000 and can chop
as much cotton as the Mason picker can
pick.
The colorcd Baptist ut this place will
soon have completed nice and conven-
lent new church, THIS shows spirit Of
,enterpriac and thrift worthy to be COM
mendGd.
Miss Snmuclla Brown, of Anderson,
will soon sail to China, to which place
aho goes IA n missionary from the Wo-
mans Missionary Society Of the Motho-
dist Church.
The RcRistcrof tho 18Th inst says: "An-
nourcrment is made of the approaching
mntfiaR6 OF policeman George S. OGg
and Miss Maggie b. Munson, lady from
Pickcn8 County, now residing i'll this
county.
IF you kncw how many kind things
were sNid about You, they would more
than compensate for the mkind things
which you hcnr, and those who say
R1od things about you, know whereof
'tEey speak; the others aro just guessing
at it,
Mcasrg. Henry Troscot md TI nolmGe